Box for packing sedlitz-powders



(No Mbdel.)

G. S. WELLS.

30X FOB. PACKING SEDLITZ POWDERS.

.No 309,905. Patented Dec. 30, 1884-,

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WITNESSES INVBNTOB BY I 2m J s ATTORNEY STATES CHARLES WELLS, 0F Bos'ron, niASsAoHUSETTs, ASSIGNOR To'WAL'rnR R. FRANCIS, on NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

. sex on PACKINGSEDLlTZ-POWDERS.

SPECIFICATION formin g part of Letters Patent No. 309,905, dated December 30, 1884.

' Application filed April 11, res 4. (N5 model To a, whom it may concern.- J

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. WELLS, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Box for Packing Sedlitz Powders, of which the following is a specification. I

Myinvention relates to an improvement in boxes forip'acking' chemical powdersfand it consists, essentially, in a box formed of a tube in which a disk is fitted to divide it into suitable compartments, with similar disks fitted into each end for covers, as hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

The invention is more especially adapted to packing sedlit-z -powders, which consist of opposing chemical bases, which mutually neutralize when dissolved and subsequently mixed. The two opposing bases are commonly furnished to the trade packed in simple paper wrappers of different colors, to distinguish the bases, which wrappers do notprevent the chemicals from becoming dampened and dissolved in certain moist climates. It has been my object, therefore, to furnish abox in which both the bases can be separately packed protected from air or moisture, and which forms a convenient package for containing one dose of the powders, thecquivalent of one white and oneblue wrapped package, as commonly furnished in the trade. Figure l-is a perspective view of my improved box; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the same; Fig. 3, a section of the shell of the box; and Fig. 4, views of the dividing-parti- 'Iy thick to provide ample bearing-surface in contact with the case. It is forced into the I case to a depth corresponding to the relative volumes of the divisions required in the case, which are quite unequal in sedlitz-powder 5o packages. The ends or covers Care similar pieces to that forming the partition 13, and are forced into the case in a silnilar manner.

Formed as above described and shown, with the partition B in place, one end of the 5 case A is filled with powder, the cover 0 forced down hard upon it. and the remaining end of the case is then similarly filled and closed.

The ends of the box are difl'erently colored to distinguish the chemicals or powders with- 60 in, in the same manner as the-papers previous ly alluded to.

I claim As an article of manufacture, a box for packing sedlitzpowders, composed of case A, 6 5 ends or covers 0, and partition B, as herein shown and described.

CHAR-LES S. \VELLS.

Witnesses:

E. K. DEXTER, THOMAS G. J OYCE. 

